A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

The will to do, the soul to dare..

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.